Scala Functional Programming Patterns

The problem – grouping continuous integers

A while back, I wanted a simple and elegant way to solve the following problem:

Given: A sorted list of numbers

When: We group these numbers

Then: Each number in a group is higher by one than its predecessor. So, let's be good and write a few tests first:

 @Test public void testFourGroup() { List<Integer> list = Lists.newArrayList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 20, 21, 22); List<List<Integer>> groups = groupThem.groupThem(list); assertThat(groups.size(), equalTo(4)); assertThat(groups.get(0), contains(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)); assertThat(groups.get(1), contains(9)); assertThat(groups.get(2), contains(11)); assertThat(groups.get(3), contains(20, 21, 22)); } @Test public void testNoGroup() { List<Integer> emptyList = Lists.newArrayList(); ...